“Rather than claiming, I have wages now”

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For Ozma Akhtar, gaining employment has opened the door to a brand new way of life. Ms Akhtar, a single mother of two, was lonely, depressed and isolated from society before she retrained and secured a job in a call centre. Now that she has made friends at her workplace she enjoys the kind of social contact that she had all but given up on during the long years she stayed at home caring for her children and sick father.

“Being at work means I get to meet people so I have a different lifestyle now,” Ms Akhtar, 32, from